Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, The

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | 514 words | Copyright

Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, The, first book by William Saroyan, issued in 1934. It collects 26 stories, all brief, and some only a page long, in the author's own idiosyncratic vein, written with great speed during a time when he claimed to have written a story a day for 30 days. The title work presents a poor, jobless, aspiring young author in San Francisco as he makes his way through a day conceiving, among many other things, of a “flight with grace…to some sort of eternity.”

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